The first episode, “Is biodiversity declining everywhere?” features Maria Dornelas, who challenges the prevailing, but overly simplistic narrative of ubiquitous biodiversity loss.

Maria Dornelas is the Lead Author for Chapter 2 of the IPBES assessment on biodiversity monitoring.

Maria Dornelas received the first CIM Award from the University of Vigo for her pioneering contributions to the study of global marine biodiversity and the impacts of environmental changes on ocean ecosystems.

The team participated in and presented their work at ECRS, which focused on closing knowledge gaps between tropical, temperate, and cold-water coral reefs while advocating for sustainable conservation strategies to safeguard these ecosystems.

Did you know that fish are getting smaller, which could significantly impact our future? Discover the reasons behind this phenomenon and how it affects us in this revealing article.

Maria, Vivi, Ines, Faye and Anne attended the last meeting of the sTeTra working group, in Leipzig.

Maria attended the first sTime working group meeting, focused on merging palaeo and modern data to look at biodiversity change.

‘Taking the pulse of the planet’: could we monitor biodiversity from space as we do the weather? Click here to read the article

Cher won the Ian Potter doctoral fellowship at Lizard Island. This grants her with a budget to spend more time in the field in Jigurru (Great Barrier Reef, Australia).

Maria, Vivi, James, Garrett, Cher, Matt and Maddy, together with some HIMB collaborators Devynn, Mollie, Marion and Dama went all in for the first coralINT trip to Jiigurru.

Matt joins the Macroscope as a PhD student in the coralINT project. He will look at how reef community structures affect coral larval recruitment.

As part of the NSF-NERC project ‘Flourish in complexity’ in collaboration with the J Madin lab (HIMB), Catarina, a Portuguese ceramic artist, run a clay workshop in Coconut Island (Hawai’i) with local scientists that made them relate to corals through a different perspective.

Inês within the sTeTra working group led and published a paper on body size shifts in populations and assemblages in Science. Read the paper here.

Maria, Vivi, James, Cher and Garrett went to the Coconut Island field station at the Hawai’ian Institute for Marine Biology to start mapping and coral tracking on that site for the coralINT project.

Sofia Freitas joins the Macroscope as our lab manager– good luck herding the team!

Maria, Cher, Ines and Mike join the second sTeTra working group at the idiv facilities in Leipzig. Vivi and Faye joined online. Let’s put the BioTIME database to good use!